On Sat, 01 Sep 2018 14:42:36 +0300 Lars Wirzenius <l...@liw.fi> wrote: > Package: ftp.debian.org > Severity: normal > > I wrote vmdebootstrap in 2011, originally. It has been maintained by > others since then, upstream and in Debian. I am now again the upstream > and Debian maintainer since last year. > > As upstream, I am ashamed of having written such a lousy program. It > has a bad architecture that makes the software inflexible, difficult > to modify, hard to test, and it is not suitable for large number of > use cases. I admit a number of people have managed to make use of it. > > There are better options now: I wrote vmdb2, and there is debos. FAI > is probably also better than vmdebootstrap. > > As upstream, I want vmdebootstrap gone. This means it should be > removed from Debian as well. I don't want someone else to adopt it: > it's that bad. It is my birthday and my birthday wish to be rid of > this blight. (Whenever ftpmaster has time for it is fine: I just want > to make the request today.) > > I've announced my intention to ask vmdebootstrap to be removed on > debian-cloud, in NEWS.Debian in the package, on debian-devel-announce, > and in my blog, at various points this year, so I feel I've given > ample warning. unstable still has two reverse dependencies: lava and > live-wrapper.
Live wrapper will need to be fixed first. Checking reverse dependencies... # Broken Depends: live-wrapper: live-wrapper # Broken Build-Depends: live-wrapper: vmdebootstrap (>= 1.7-1+nmu1) Dependency problem found. Please remove the moreinfo tag after that is done. Scott K
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